Editing Strike action (section)

===Fiction===
* ''[[Strike (1925 film)|Statschka]]'' ("Strike"), Director: [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Soviet Union 1924
* ''[[Brother (1929 film)|Brüder]]'' ("Brother"), Director: [[Werner Hochbaum]], Germany 1929–On the general strike in the port of Hamburg, Germany in 1896/97
* ''[[The Stars Look Down (film)|The Stars Look Down]]'', Director: [[Carol Reed]], England 1939{{snd}}Film about a strike over safety standards at a coal mine in North-East England{{snd}}based on the [[A.J. Cronin|Cronin]] novel
* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' a 1940 film by [[John Ford]] includes description of migrant workers striking, and its violent breaking by employers, assisted by the police. Based on [[The Grapes of Wrath|the novel]] by [[John Steinbeck]].
* ''[[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|Salt of the Earth]]'', Director: [[Herbert J. Biberman]], US 1953–Fictionalized account of an actual zinc-miners' strike in [[Silver City, New Mexico]], in which women took over the picket line to circumvent an injunction barring "striking miners" from company property. The striking women were largely played by real members of the strike, and one woman was deported to Mexico while filming. The [[union organizer]] [[Clinton Jencks]] (from [[Jencks v. United States]] fame) also participated.
* ''[[The Molly Maguires]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1970 film starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. Frustrated by the failure of strike action to achieve their industrial objectives, a secret society among Pennsylvania coal miners sabotages the mine with explosives to try to get what their industrial action failed to obtain. A Pinkerton agent infiltrates them.
* ''[[F.I.S.T. (film)|F.I.S.T.]]'', Director: [[Norman Jewison]], 1978{{snd}}loosely based on the [[Teamsters]] union and former president Jimmy Hoffa.
* ''[[Norma Rae]]'', Director: [[Martin Ritt]], 1979.
* ''[[Matewan]]'', Director: [[John Sayles]], 1987{{snd}}critically acclaimed account of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of [[West Virginia]].
* ''[[Made in Dagenham]]'', 2010{{snd}}based on the strike at [[Ford Motor Company|Fords]] plant in Dagenham, England, UK, which won equal pay for female workers.